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French track and field athlete
Jacques Madubost
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  France
European Athletics Championships
Gold medal – first place 1966 Budapest High jump

Jacques Madubost (6 June 1944 – 29 June 2018) was a French track and field athlete who competed in the high jump.

Despite never winning a national title at the French Athletics Championships, he was the gold medallist at the 1966 European Athletics Championships in Budapest. He defeated compatriot Robert Sainte-Rose – the leading French athlete of the era – by count-back, as both cleared 2.12 m (6 ft 11+1⁄4 in). This made Madubost the first Frenchman to win a field event at the championship, and he remains the sole French male athlete to win the European title in men's high jump (Anne-Marie Colchen won the women's event 20 years earlier). For his achievement he was given the 1966 medal of the Académie des sports (one of two from athletics, alongside sprinter Roger Bambuck).

The 1966 season proved to be a peak of his career, as he also twice improved the French national record with clearances of 2.14 m (7 ft 1⁄4 in) and 2.15 m (7 ft 1⁄2 in). He represented France at the 1968 European Athletics Indoor Championships, but did not match his previous success and ended the competition in 18th place.

A policeman by occupation, after his retirement from athletics he represented France internationally in sport shooting.

References

  1. "Jacques Madubost est mort".
  2. J2 Jeunes, n° 14, 1968.
  3. Miroir de l'athlétisme, n°21, 1 June 1966.
  4. ^ European Championships (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-18.
  5. French Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-18.
  6. European Championships (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-18.
  7. LES MÉDAILLES DE L'ACADÉMIE DES SPORTS. Academie des Sports. Retrieved on 2014-10-18.
  8. Janusz Waśko, Andrzej Socha: Athletics National Records Evolution 1912 – 2006. Zamość - Sandomierz: 2007, p. 84.
  9. Jacques Madubost Archived 2014-10-22 at the Wayback Machine. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2014-10-18.
European Athletics Championships champions in men's high jump
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